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Jessica Rennie, or eoLuMB'Us, INDIANA, Ass'Ie enur a THOMAS, or SAME PLACE.

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NOR TO HIMSELF, GAFF,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,847, dated January 27, 1880'.

Application filed September 1, 1879,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. GENT, of Columbus, in the county of Bartholomewand State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improved Alimentary Products from Corn 5 and I do hereby declare the' following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to obtain from the cereal known by the several names of corn, Indian corn, and maize a new alimentary product, and to manufacture this new I 5 product in such a manner that itshall possess the quality 'of keeping in any climate.

' To these ends the first part of my invention consists of the new product composed of dry flakes made from clipped and purified kernels of corn.

The second part of my invention consists of a compound process, the first step of which consists of the separation of the bulls and impurities from the kernels of corn by subjecting the corn to a dry clipping and cracking operation,'and by separating the hulls and impuri-.

tics from the heavier coarser portions by sifting and winnowing, or. either of these operations, to obtain a purified granular product.

The second step of the process consists of the steaming of the granular product for the purposes of softening and toughening the granules without cooking the same.

The third step of the process consists of 3 5 warm-rolling the soft and tough and wet granules for the purposes of rolling or pressing the granules into flakes and of drying and hardenin g the particles.

In order that my invention may be clearly 4o understood,

cess which I have'successfull y practiced for the production of the new product from corn.

The winnowed kernels of corn may be passed through a suitable mill to crackand hull them, i 5 and the cracked grits sifted or bolted to separate the bulls as efl'ect'ually as practicable; or such kernels of corn may be passed through a cracking, hulling, and separating millof any known kind, to hull, clip, and crack the ker- ;o ne'ls, as well as to separate the bulls and clipped portions'from the granular cracked portions, at one operation. The purified I will proceed to describe m mo-- terial is then subjected to in any suitable vessel, the steam tinned longeiiough to efl'ect a toughening of the granules.

terial (which may first be a steaming action iug being consoftening and The damp madrained and otherwise treated to free it from the greater part of the condensed water) isithen pressed and dried, so that the particles shall assume the form and quality of ing and pressing I warm ro lers but many oth plishing this step of my readily suggest them in the art.

I am aware that corn h hulled and granulated and dry hard flakes. This dryhave effected by passing the damp material thro successfully ugh between er means for accomas heretofore been steamed, and therecompouud process will 6-5 selves to any one skilled fore claim neither of those processes; nordo I claim, broadly, in g and of corn.

a process co nsisting of the hullgran ulatin g and subsequent steaming I claim this compound process only when combined with the step of pressing and drying, as hereinbet'ore step my process is distin gm set forth by which shed from an y heretofore-known process for the treatment of corn,

and the consequence of the step in my new process 1s practicing of which the production of the new article herein described.

What I claim as my inveuti secure by Letters Patent, i

on, and desire to Q L t 1. As a new article of manufacture, the

herein-described all which consists of hulled,

mental-y productfrom corn dry, hard, uncooked 8 flakes made from the kernels.

2. The process, s forth, of making dr kernels of corn for alimentary product, the following steps, viz:

' hard ubstaut-ially as herein set flakes from hull ed the production of a new which process consists of 90 first, crushing the corn in the dry state and separating the hulls therefrom second, steami terial to soften and toughe ng the granular man the particles without cooking the same; third, pressing and drying the particles to reduc flakes.

In lest-imon have hereunto August, 1879.

Witne'sssz- THOMAS C. BURGES granular ma- I SAMUEL HARRIS.

e them to dry hard 7 y that I claim the tbregoing I set my hand this 30th day of liosErH r. GENT. 

